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i'm dan ackerman and we are here taking a look at the asuste ux32vd Savior snickering about the name until later this is part of these his zenbook line which is there ultrabook line of laptops the original zenbook was one of the first generation of ultrabooks and was really designed to compete with those other early models and also the apple macbook air probably the most popular ultra-thin 13-inch laptop it was perfectly fine but this latest version the UX 32 is really advanced compared to a lot of the other ultrabooks we've seen it includes a lot of the features that usually see stripped out I would go so far as to call it very close to being an ultrabook without compromise what does that mean that means it's got an intel core i7 cpu it's got a full 1080p screen that's 1920 x 1080 that's a resolution you very rarely see on a 13-inch laptop and perhaps most importantly it has a discrete NVIDIA GPU now it's only a 620 m GPU it's a pretty entry-level part but I tried playing a whole bunch of games on including recent ones like Skyrim and I got reasonably playable results which is not something you're likely to get on most other ultrabooks you also get backlit keyboard very important in a slim travel laptop these days big click pad similar to the ones we've seen on earlier zenbook laptops from a sous but it's really not a strong point here they actually sent over last-minute driver update to the touchpad made it a little bit better more usable but you're still not going to get anything really like the responsiveness and then snappy feel that you get from Apple and their macbook touchpads I think that's an area where really all of the ultrabooks need to put in some extra effort in order to catch shot now you do get multiple USB 3.0 ports which is great and even multiple video ports this mini DisplayPort and HDMI built in and you get a external dongle for vga so anything you want to connect this to you pretty much can even the battery life was pretty decent north and five hours then here's the catch you're going to pay a little bit more for all these features this guy is 12 99 which is maybe not a lot compared to a macbook air but it is a lot more expensive than most other ultrabooks but if you need all those extra features and you still want something that's relatively slim and light and portable then I think you're going to find this as a fairly compromise free example of an ultrabook i'm dan ackerman and that is the sous zenbook ux32vd